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Family Related Factors and Concurrent Heroin Use in Methadone Maintenance Treatment in China. [PDF]

, 2018
BackgroundThe use of heroin during Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) is a challenging problem that contributes to poor treatment outcomes. Families may play an important role in addressing concurrent heroin use during MMT, especially in collectivist ...
Feng, Nan, Hsieh, Julie, Li, Li, Lin, Chunqing, Rou, Keming   +4 more
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Extracellular signal-regulated kinase in the basolateral amygdala is required for reconsolidation of heroin-associated memory

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2022
Reconsolidation of heroin-associated memory is an independent memory process that occurs following retrieval, which is essential for the sustained capacity of an associative drug stimulus to precipitate heroin-seeking.
Haoyu Li, Haoyu Li, Haoyu Li, Ting Hu, Ting Hu, Ting Hu, Yanghui Zhang, Zijin Zhao, Zijin Zhao, Zijin Zhao, Qing Liu, Qing Liu, Qing Liu, Zihua Chen, Zihua Chen, Si Chen, Si Chen, Si Chen   +17 more
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Quality of life and its correlates among heroin users in Taiwan

Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2011
The aims of this study were to compare the quality of life (QOL) between subjects with and without heroin use and to examine the association of QOL with sociodemographic characteristics, characteristics of heroin use, family support, and depression among
Chia-Nan Yen, Carol Sheei-Meei Wang, Tzu-Yun Wang, Hsiao-Fang Chen, Hsun-Cheng Chang, 顏嘉男, 王秀美, 王姿云, 陳小芳, 張訓誠   +9 more
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Buprenorphine is a weak dopamine releaser relative to heroin, but its pretreatment attenuates heroin‐evoked dopamine release in rats

Neuropsychopharmacology Reports, 2020
Aims The United States of America is currently in an opioid epidemic. Heroin remains the most lethal opioid option with its death rate increasing by over 500% in the last decade.
Dominic P. Isaacs, Ryan P. Leman, Thomas J. Everett, Hendrick Lopez‐Beltran, Lindsey R. Hamilton, Erik B. Oleson   +5 more
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A Study to Validate a Self-Reported Version of the ONS Drug Dependence Questionnaire [PDF]

, 2011
Aim: A prospective study to establish the reliability of a self-completion version of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) questionnaire for assessing drug dependence of substance misuse clients.
Christo G., Darke S., Gossop M., Jehanli A., Lundy A., Luty J., M. Uddin, Marsden J., McLellan A. T., Poole W. K., R. Holland, Rosen C. S., Schwartz R. H., Sherman M. F., Simpson D. D., Singleton N., V. Maskrey, Vivancos R.   +17 more
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Should heroin be prescribed to heroin misusers? No [PDF]

BMJ, 2008
Prescribing heroin to heroin addicts is a strategy beloved by top police officers1 and successive home secretaries.2 It is a strategy, though, borne of utter frustration at our seeming inability to tackle an escalating drug problem. If you cannot stop addicts committing crimes to fund their drug habit then, so the argument goes, the next best thing is ...
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Association of frontal gray matter volume and cerebral perfusion in heroin addiction: A multimodal neuroimaging study

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2013
Structure and function in the human healthy brain are closely related. In patients with chronic heroin exposure, brain imaging studies have identified long-lasting changes in gray matter (GM) volume.
Niklaus eDenier, André eSchmidt, Hana eGerber, Otto eSchmid, Anita eRiecher-Rössler, Gerhard eWiesbeck, Christian G. Huber, Undine E. Lang, Ernst-Wilhelm eRadue, Marc eWalter, Stefan eBorgwardt, Stefan eBorgwardt   +11 more
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Chasing the dragon – an overview of heroin trafficking [PDF]

, 2016
There are many problems encountered during the attempt to tackle the heroin trade on a global level. Afghanistan is largely responsible for the production of heroin, providing a global distribution amount of 75%.
Carvetta, CA, O'Hagan, A
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Heroin maintenance for chronic heroin-dependent individuals [PDF]

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2010
Several types of medications have been used for stabilizing heroin users: Methadone, Buprenorphine and levo-alpha-acetyl-methadol (LAAM.) The present review focuses on the prescription of heroin to heroin-dependent individuals.To compare heroin maintenance to methadone or other substitution treatments for opioid dependence regarding: efficacy and ...
Carlo A. Perucci, Marina Davoli, Marica Ferri   +2 more
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Using a pragmatically adapted, low-cost contingency management intervention to promote heroin abstinence in individuals undergoing treatment for heroin use disorder in UK drug services (PRAISE): a cluster randomised trial

BMJ Open, 2021
Introduction Most individuals treated for heroin use disorder receive opioid agonist treatment (OAT)(methadone or buprenorphine). However, OAT is associated with high attrition and persistent, occasional heroin use.
Julian Mutz, Andrew Pickles, Sarah Byford, John Dunn, Kimberley Goldsmith, Franziska Mosler, Tim Weaver, James Shearer, Emily Finch, John Strang, Clare Davey, Stephen Pilling, Anthony Glasper, Nicola Metrebian, Jennifer Hellier, Luke Mitcheson, Prun Bijral, Nadine Bogdan, Owen Bowden-Jones, Edward Day, Sam Forshall, Shabana Akhtar, Jalpa Bajaria, Carmel Bennett, Elizabeth Bishop, Vikki Charles, Roopal Desai, Claire Goodfellow, Farjana Haque, Nicholas Little, Hortencia McKechnie, Jo Morris, Ruth Pauli, Dilkushi Poovendran, Elizabeth Phillips   +34 more
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